he will be introduced by cory gardner, michael bennett, the two senators from colorado and also by former acting solicitor general neal katyal. some folks have been waiting in line to get in and you can see the room filling up fairly full now. something like before dawn this morning. we caught up wit with a few to d out where they stand on judge gorsuch. >> my name is william and i'm here this money to support neil gorsuch and his nomination. mole cell what to say it and see what the committee has to say, what questions they're going to ask him. quite frankly i don't see how we doesn't get, not nominate but confirmed by the senate. >> who are you with? >> i'm sorry? >> are you with a group? what do you do for a living? >> i'm sorry, i'm an internet just asked for the morning off to come over here. >> where do you entered? >> i'm interning with the young leaders program at the heritage foundation. >> and tell us what you like about judge neil gorsuch. what if you learned about him that you think you should be confirmed? >> i really like that judge neil gorsuch is a constitutional conservat

. >> senator cory gardner reported by politico yesterday to have said he doesn't believe that $14 billion wall along the mexican border is the best way to provide border security does the white house see the support for border wall weakening? >> no, that was something he campaigned on in an effort to both protect our national security and economic security and he's going to fulfill that pledge. he's already started to work with the department of homeland security. a -- should roll out shortly. that's a pledge he plans to maintain. >> april 28th is right around the corner, government funding expires, given that during the transition period you guys asked for a short term c.r. to weigh in, what's the white house doing to avoid a shutdown, i talked to sources they couldn't point to specific talks, so what's the plan. >> director mulvaney is going to release his budget on the 16th that's the first step. we're approaching $20 trillion of our debt and i think we need to get spending under control and so part of funding the government goes hand in hand with keeping track of what we're spending o

in blue state colorado, for example, voters have been pressuring senator cory gardner to meet with themey have kept steady pressure on him in colorado for weeks. we've been watching it on twitter and facebook, watching local news coverage of the pressure on cory gdeneat home. yesterday senator cory gardener came out with three other republican senators and said he was against the newly rolled out plan to scrap obamacare. it's not like he's a champion of the affordable care act. fall democrats stay solid on this. republicans can only lose two. on that letter alone that's cory gardner and three others, plus lindsey graham saying, whoa, whoa, whoa. if those objections hold, the republican plan to kill obamacare is dead already. the republicans can't repeal obamacare because it's not conservative enough, so conservative members of congress are rising up against it. yes, that is happening, but they can afford to shed some right-wing house republican votes. what they haven't shed in large numbers are senators. democrat senators are pretty unified on this front and republicans are pretty split

they have mounted a long-standing and forceful effort to push senator cory gardner to say no to trump plans and republican plans on everything from repealing the affordable care act to the muslim ban to the wall on the mexican border, coloradoens have been demanding time with their senator, they have been pressuring him to hold town halls, they have been be doing whatever they can to reach him to get his attention through prank missing poster signs. try to initiate contact. see the small print there? if you have seen or heard from this man, please inform his constituents. they've tried flattery, senator gardener, will you make a date with colorado? they have tried getting his attention by holding town halls without him where they pose questions to a cardboard version of cory gardner. they have made art from his face. that pressure may be starting to move things. after the president's first muslim ban took effect senator gardner called on the president to change it. says it goes too far. i urge the administration to take the appropriate steps to fix this overly broad executive order. o

they have mounted a long-standing and forceful effort to push senator cory gardner to say no to trumplans and republican plans on everything from repealing the affordable care act to the muslim ban to the wall on the mexican border, coloradoens have been demanding time with their senator, they have been pressuring him to hold town halls, they have been be doing whatever they can to reach him to get his attention through prank missing poster signs. try to initiate contact. see the small print there? if you have seen or heard from this man, please inform his constituents. they've tried flattery, senator gardener, will you make a date with colorado? they have tried getting his attention by holding town halls without him where they pose questions to a cardboard version of cory gardner. they have made art from his face. that pressure may be starting to move things. after the president's first muslim ban took effect senator gardner called on the president to change it. says it goes too far. i urge the administration to take the appropriate steps to fix this overly broad executive order. on

host: cory gardner, lisa murkowski, some of the senators pushing back already against the a.c.a.. do they falling your caucus? guest: they do, and what i emphasized early on, this is the beginning. there will be copper as is out of the house and senate. what you see coming out of the house will be tweaked by the united states senate, and hopefully we have one please -- piece.-- host: is that a fight between the wings in what the house and the senate want to see? guest: the one thing we all agree on is it is failing and it needs to be fixed. host: maryland. democrats line. caller: i wanted to follow-up on your guest's statement about e-verify, and i do think it is a system that addresses a portion of the issue, but i think there is a real disconnect between conservative think tanks and regular, everyday americans. i live in a middle-class neighborhood, people living on a budget -- not broke -- but living on a budget, and the people in my neighborhood who are more conservative that you talk to -- friends of mine -- who would, say, speak out against illegal immigration, have a proble

neither cory gardner nor michael bennett have to fear you'll challenge them for senate seat in colorado in the future? >> senator, i admire them both. it's a wonderful fact they are both here to introduce me. if they follow a tradition the west, where republican and democrat, introduced me last time around. frankly, ten circuit nominations thanks, senator hatch, care about the tenth circuit. republican and democrat generally going for smoothly. it shows. you all have picked -- i don't know how it works, i don't know how this crazy process works. but the colleagues you selected for me over the years are wonderful colleges. wonderful people. i've been richly blessed to spend ten years with every one of them. >> when you distinguish between the rear view mirror of a justice or a judge, laettner life looking back and the rear view mirror of a senator, we have different callings. i think without putting words in your mouth, you'll be able to say, you can be proud of your career even if you failed to advance your policy preferences in this calling. unpack that for the american people. help th

hearing in bipartisan fashion by his home state senators, democrat michael bennett and republican cory gardner along with neal katyal, who acted as acting solicitor general in the obama administration. according to a source close to gorsu gorsuch, he had 70 senators that he met with prior to today. and he met at the old executive office building with the white house office and the former clerks involved with the questioning. >>> rex tillerson met with xi jinping yesterday. in contrast to ongoing rhetoric from the president, tillerson appeared more cordial about building a relationship. and xi jinping said this can only be defined by friendship. nigh c president xi is expected to meet with president trump in the next couple months. >>> meanwhile, tillerson is responding to criticism over his decision to travel with one reporter on the trip. in the interview with the reporter, he said of the decision, primarily it's driven, believe it or not, you won't believe it, we're trying to save money. i'm not a big media press access person. i personally don't need it. i understand it's important to get t

cory gardner, he can even say the word -- cannot even say the word trump, he says somebody has to spend ask amount of money on health care. he can even say the guy's name. i am beside myself, we destroy , rebuildingd cities them and blowing them up again and never have money for our own country. i do not know if you're still there. host: other headlines this morning, wall street journal reports that job numbers have cleared the way for a likely interest type at the fed -- hike at the fed, saying u.s. economic expenses the third longest on record and shows no sign of letting up in february with robust hiring, falling unemployment, a firmer wage growth, opening the way for the federal reserve to raise short-term interest rates. total officials have signaled rate increasel will be highly likely in the policy meeting next week but a report from the labor department opera much to strengthen their resolve. payrollsil -- nonfarm were seasonally adjusted to 235,000 from january, exceeding forecasters expectations and the unemployment rate got down to 4.7%. california.ton, what is your top infra

that letter signed by republicans rob portman of ohio, shelley of west virginia, cory gardner of coloradoleasing -- lisa murkowski of alaska and all of those highlighting the senators hail from states that expanded medicaid under president obama's health care law. we will hear from jupiter, florida, on the republican line. caller: i suggested is maybe there is a website that might show the difference between what were and whatents ultimately both sides of the house, with as a replacement program, this way all citizens of the united states could look at things and maybe make comments. the second thing would be, there is so much concession on the news programs and we are not really seeming to get any progress in a country. oneaps we should have station or the one you represent show in kind of like a school class forum, here is what we have, here is what we are proposing, here is what the differences are so the american people can have a better perspective of what is going on and be able to comment because obviously, we're the ones who are going to be using it. host: if you type re adthebill

neither cory gardner nor michael bennett have to fear that you're going to challenge them for a senate seat from colorado in the future? >> senator, i admire them both. i think it's a wonderful fact they're both here to introduce me and that they follow a tradition the lest. senator salazar and al lard, republican and democrat, introduced me last time and ten circuit nominations, thanks to -- he's not here at the moment, but senator hatch. cares about the tenth circuit. public and in democrat. generally gone very smoothly. and it shows. it shows. that you all have picked -- i don't know how it works. i don't know how this crazy process works. but the colleagues you've selected for me over the years are wonderful colleagues. wonderful people. and i've been richly blessed to spend ten years with every one of them. >> so when you distinguish between the rearview mirror of a justice later or a judge later in life looking back and the rearview mirror of the senator, we have different callings. and so, i think without putting words in your mouth, you're going to be able to say that you can b

neither cory gardner or michael bennet have to fear you will challenge them for a senate seat in coloradon the future? >> senator, i admire them both. i think it's a wonderful fact that they were both here to introduce me. and that they follow a tradition of the west. where senator salazar and senator allard, republican, democrat, introduced me last time around. frankly 10th circuit nomination thanks, he is not here at the moment, but senator hatch cares about the 10th circuit. republican and democrat, generally going very smoothly. and it shows. it shows. that you all have picked, i don't know how it works. i don't know how this crazy process works. but the colleagues you've selected for me over the years are wonderful colleagues. wonderful people. and i've been richly-blessed to spend 10 years with everyone of them. >> so when you distinguished between the rear view mirror of a justice later or judge later in life looking back, in the require view mirror of a senator, we have different calls. and so i think without putting words in your mouth, you're going to be able to say, that you ca

senator cory gardner was reported by "politico" yesterday to have said he doesn't believe that a $14hile along the mexican border is the best way to provide border security. does the white house see support for the border while weakening in congress? >> press secretary spicer: no, the president was very clear. that was on the he campaigned on and promised the american people as an effort to protect both our national security and economic security. he is going to fulfill that pledge pure he has already sorted to rick with the department of homeland security on both the plans and funding mechanism and bidding and rfp process, and shortly, that is a pledge he intends to maintain. >> reporter: a lot of action with healthcare lately, but april 28 is right around the corner, government funding expires. given that during the transition period, you guys asked for a short-term site you could run, what is the white house taking about a possible shutdown? i spoke to sources that cannot point specifically to it. >> press secretary spicer: director mick mulvaney is going to release his budget on

this week, four republican senators, rob portman of ohio, shelley moore capito of west virginia, cory gardner of colorado and lisa murkowski of alaska said they are concerned about medicaid. conservatives like rand paul of kentucky, ted cruz of texas and mike lee of utah have also spoken out against the bill. enter president trump, who tweeted today: "despite what you hear in the press, healthcare is coming along great. the white house is also moving fast to campaign for the bill on the ground. mr. trump will hold a rally in nashville next week, and vice president pence heads to louisville, kentucky this weekend. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. >> sreenivasan: in the day's other news, president trump's revised travel ban faced its first challenge in federal court. hawaii filed suit last night, saying the order will harm its muslim population, tourism and foreign students. hawaii attorney general doug chin spoke in honolulu today. replaced it with a lot of neutral language but that's not going to be enough in our arguments or in our opinions to be able to erase a lot of the past sta

senator cory gardner was reported by politico yesterday to have said he doesn't believe that $14 billionalong the mexican border is the best way to provide border security. does the white house see support for the border wall weakening in congress? >> no. the president was very clear. that was something he campaigned on and promised the american people as an effort to both protect our national security and economic security. and he's going to fulfill that pledge. he's already started to work with department of homeland. that's a pledge he intends to maintain. john bennett. >> sean, action on the hill with health care lately, but april 28th is right around the corner, government funding expires. given that during the transition period, you guys asked for short-term cr so you could weigh in once you were in office, what's the white house now doing to avoid a shutdown? i talked to some sources. they couldn't talk to specifics. >> director mulvaney will release his budget on the 16th. that's the first stepping in working with them to get the budget under control. we're approaching $20 trilli

cory gardner from colorado. these are influential moderates who hold the keys here. waiting for democrats to speak and it's fine for them, but they don't hold the key here. the key is the moderate republicans. >> 52-48, in the house there's a little more wiggle room with votes, not a lot, but a little bit. we could name three senators off the bat who won't go there. >> 51 votes which as you say is very tough right now in the senate, for a lot of the bill, they need 60 volts because under senate rules, only portions of obamacare can be repealed with 51 votes. so they are -- that's doa, that's not going to happen. >> and they get tom cotton on the phonas quickly as you can. we'll take it over to pelosi and schumer -- just kidding. we'd love to have tom cotton if he was around and listen to this. at what point, my -- at what point is when does donald trump cut and run from this? >> when he starts to feel too much heat from the outside. political advisors or the press starts turning against him. >> the press starts turning against him. >> well, the press coverage on what

senator rand paul from kentucky but also the moderates like susan collins from maine, as well as cory gardner so if republicans try to make the legislation more conservative to be able to move it out of the house, that might please rand paul but going to anger some of the moderates, so that push and pull, that is very tough. one other note about kentucky, while vice president mike pence railed against the health care law in kentucky, kentucky has been one of the big success stories under obamacare where the uninsurance rate went from above 20% in 2013 to close to 7% to 8% now, and so you're seeing the trump white house wanting to go into some of the success stories to be able to have a rhetorical argument against it. >> mark murray good to see you. ruth marcus thanks for sticking around for the show. >> thanks a lot. >> we're waiting for the press briefing to start. that will do it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tomorrow on this show, an dree why will join us from tokyo. follow the show online on facebook, on twitte twitter @mitchellreports. find me on twitte twitter @chrisjan

legislation, there are also more moderate republicans in the senate, republicans from purple states like cory gardner from colorado or shelley from west virginia who criticized the president and speaker ryan's legislation for the opposite reason, they say that they are really concerned about the rollback of the medicaid expansion particularly through the perspective of addiction issues as the opioid epidemic has ravished swabs of the country, it has played a key role in pushing back. so more moderate and centrist republicans are concerned as well so that means trump's negotiating skills are really going to be in for a tough test. >> jon: obviously over the weekend, speaker of the house paul ryan seemed to suggest that millions of people might not be covered under the american healthcare act. but that is because the new legislation is going to give them the freedom to decide whether they want to be covered by some kind of government health insurance program or not. >> it stands to reason that if you mandate something, more people are going to be covered in if you take away the mandate, less people wil

people like senator cory gardner , rand paul, tom cotton, the list goes on and on. and ted cruz these are all republicans who are speaking out against house speaker paul ryan's health care plan, albeit for very different reasons. this is going to ultimately come down to a decision between this administration and between the dealmakers within the republican caucus who are going to have to side -- decide between whether or not they decide between the more conservative wing of the party or the more moderate. mark: this estimate is getting big push backs amongst the trump administration. what is the big picture? what does it mean? what is the significance of this? report fromhas a the trump white house that administration officials are actually having a more internally damning report in the cbl official. the congressional budget office is nonpartisan, this is something that has widely not been a political instrument for years. the bottom line is that the administration has taken issue with these 14 million americans who officials are estimating will lose health insuranc

senator cory gardner was reported by "politico" yesrday to have said he doesn't believe that 14 billion-dollarthe mexican border is the best way to provide border security. does the white house see support for the border wall weakening in congress? >> no. the president was very clear, that was something he campaigned on and promised the american people as an effort to protect our national security and our economic security. and he will fulfill that pledge. he started to work with the department of homeland security on both plans and funding mechanism and bidding and rfp process it will roll out slowly or shortly i should say, but that's a pledge he intends to maintain. john bennett? >> sean. action on the hill with health care lately but april 28th is right around the corner. government funding expires. given during the transition period you guys asked for a short-term cr so you could weigh in once you were in office what is the white house doing right now to avoid a shutdown? i talked to sources, they couldn't point to specific talks. what is the state of play there? >> director have main ver

health care legislation, a man i know you know well, i'm not sure how good a friends you are, cory gardner, from colorado rote, we are concerned that any poorly implemented or pie poorly timed change in medicaid could look at life saving health care services. according to the colorado health institute about 407,000 folks in colorado got health insurance because of medicaid expansion under obamacare and for you all to then provide for them as the state of colorado if the republican bill goes through as planned comes to $780 million. those numbers sound right to you? >> yeah, we've had estimates up to $1 billion it could cost us. but, it's big numbers and i think, if we could work together on it, i think it's-- we don't want to roll people off the coverage. what we'd like to do, maybe we adjust what's covered. there's maybe a process by which we could find savings by scaling sort of things up, looking at pharmaceuticals. let's do that rather than just saying we're going to take literally hundreds of thousands of people off of health care coverage. leland: as you know, governor, as a former s

ohio,rs rob portman in west virginia, cory gardner of colorado and makowski of alaska. if it is as good as my colleagues are saying it is, then portman, gartner and mikul ski should be screaming from the mountain tops how they love it. they wrote a letter of concern. i am trying to make sense of it. the response that provided some clarity. i yield back to the lady from florida. >> we -- we, we are here to serve. >> thank you, mr. chairman. who seeks recognition? [laughter] >> the gentleman from maryland, for what purpose? >> strike the word. >> recognized for five minutes. >> i want to push back on this idea of flexibility because that keeps being invoked as the basis for this fundamental restructuring of the medicaid program and that is what it is. it is not just going back to pre-aca days, it is taking the program to a different place which we think will damage the interests of medicaid recipients. we fact of the matter is have had testimony in this committee since i have been here describing at cms the opportunities that different states have had to experiment theirn

neither cory gardner nor michael bennett have to fear that you're going to challenge them for a senate seat from colorado in the future? >> senator, i admire them both and i think it is a wonderful fact that they were both here to introduce me and that they follow a tradition in the west where senator salizar and senator allard, republican and democrat, introduced me last time around. frankly, tenth circuit nominations, thanks to -- he's not here at the moment, but senator hatch who cares about the tenth circuit. republican and democrat generally gone very smoothly. and it shows. it shows that you all have picked -- i don't know how it works. i don't know this crazy process works. but the colleagues you've selected for me over the years are wonderful colleagues. wonderful people. and i have been richly blessed to spend ten years with every one of them. >> so when you distinguish between the rear-view mirror of a justice later or a judge later in life looking back and the rear-view mirror of a senator, we have different callings. and so i think, without putting words in your mouth, you'

gardner? >> guest: yes, cory gardener. i say that because technology has become much like the private marketplace foundational to how you succeed in a campaign. >> host: when he hear someone is crunching the numbers. what does that mean? >> guest: it probably means they are using data to have greater situational awareness and what they are likely to do during the election day and season. with early voting, and absentee it is no longer one day but a couple week window. it is possible now with the technology and sort of advance data algorithm to get a sense in real time where voters are, their likelihood of supporting your candidate or your opponent and the likelihood to vote. you put those two data points together and you have a general picture of how the election is going to go. >> host: what do you look at when you look at a voter? someone's facebook page or is that simple at this point? >> guest: depends on the campaign and level of sophistication. at the more advance levels, it is possible you use a long list of data po

gardner: senator cory was reported by "policito" to have said he doesn't believe the $14 billion wall along the border is the best way to provide border security. does the white house see support weakening in congress? mr. spicer: the president was very clear and promised the american people to protect national security and economic security and will fulfill that pledge. he has started to work with the department of homeland security on the bidding process. that is a pledge that he intends to maintain. april 28 is right around the corner, government funding expires. given that during the transmission. period, what is the white house doing right now to avoid a shutdown. i talked to said -- sources they couldn't point to specific talks. mulvaney isdirector going to release his budget on the 16th. that is the first step in working them -- with them to get the budget under control. approaching $20 trillion of our debt and we need to get spending under control, and so part of funding the government goes hand-in-hand with keeping track of what we are spending and how we are spending and wha

you will be introduced by colorado's two centrist democrat michael bennett and also republican cory gardner and former acting solicitor general, three productions for judge gorsuch. the questioning of judge gorsuch will get underway tuesday here and the hart senate office building, room 216, the site of many judicial banks and other major drinks on capitol hill. questioning on tuesday and wednesday, and then witnesses both for and against the nominee expected on thursday. all of that life on the c-span networks. we welcome your comments on our facebook page and your thoughts on twitter at c-span. a hearing expected get underway in about 25 minutes here we will watch and wait as of the nominee will write shortly. those front couple of rows are for judge gorsuch's family and friends. there's a section for the public as well right behind that, will be wrote it in depth the big if you're lucky enough to be in line perhaps at some point you will get to sit in for part of the hearing, and behind that plenty of room for the onslaught of reporters for covering the hearings beginning today, and begi

i'd also like to mention that senator cory gardner and i were just at a white house meeting an houring a. we were at the white house meeting with over a dozen tribes who represent hunks -- hundreds of other tribes. we were there to discuss our support for neil gorsuch for consortium i can tell you it was great to be there with one of my hometown tribes from montana, the c.s.k.t. they have endorsed neil gorsuch. they understand that we need a mainstream, commonsense westerner on the some of the by the way, when you look at the neil gorsuch's record on indian country issues, a as a message of the 10th circuit court for ten years, he has a track record of ruling on some very complicated issues that face indian country. he understands sovereignty. that's very important. that's why you're seeing tribes endorsing judge gorsuch. more importantly, the american people deserve nine members on the supreme court. neil gorsuch is the mainstream judge the american people want and deserve to fill out the court. i'm looking forward to what will happen next week in those hearings. you're going to see a